As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would…

Mark Twain didn't psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good copy comes…

— Samuel Fuller

Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in 'Oliver Twist' that I believe Dickens never managed to retrieve. It…

— Henning Mankell

According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic as Oliver…

— Melina Marchetta

Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow that from…

— Jim Rohn

“Mr. Charles Dickens was serializing his novel Oliver Twist; Mr. Draper had just taken the first photograph of the moon, freezing her pale face…

— Neil Gaiman

“Why Mr. Dickens, in his biography of that particular moment, preferred to focus on the adventures of the orphan parish child, Oliver Twist, remains…

— Peter David

I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield, who is…

— Mark Gatiss

My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.

— Sally Phillips

One evening at Chequers the film was Oliver Twist. Rufus, as usual, had the best seat in the house, on his master's lap. At…

— Winston Churchill

Can we reasonably expect happiness from an insatiable appetite which, no matter how it stuffs its belly, is still psychologically like Oliver Twist in…

— Joy Davidman

For me Oliver Twist is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who were forced…

— Henning Mankell

Oliver Twist has asked for more!

— Charles Dickens

For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood…

— Charles Dickens

Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a social commentator…

— Martin Amis

My pictures of 'Oliver Twist' and 'A Boy in Flanders' are being used as school lessons.

— Jackie Coogan